With Oscar-mania and other movie award shows behind us for another year, let’s see what we can learn about communication from the movies.
‘The secret to talking is listening.’ – Scarlett Johansson, ‘We Bought a Zoo’, 2011
‘Learning to listen – that takes a lot of discipline.’ – Gary Cole, ‘Forever Strange’, 2008
‘Rule #1 – be a listener!’ – Robert Downey Jr., ‘Lucky You’, 2007
‘As long as you’re talking, you’re not listening.’ – Sylvester Stallone, ‘Creed’, 2015
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